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Antiques Roadshow: Fabergé brooch linked with Russian Tsar Tuesday, November 1, marks 128 years since Nicholas II became the Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, died in 1894.
A 120-year-old letter in a bottle offering a snapshot into the hardships of life under the rule of Russia's last Tsar has been found in Poland. Penned in May 1905 by a local blacksmith named Karol ...
As the Russian Civil War raged in 1918, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were brutally killed by the Bolsheviks. Show more As civil war raged in Russia, on 17 July 1918, the imprisoned royal family ...
The Coronation celebrations of Tsar Nicholas II in May 1986 was set to be an illustrious affair but it was grimly overshadowed by a tragedy that would mark the beginning of the end of Russia’s ...
It was one of history ’s most infamous murders which brought to an end three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia. For decades mystery surrounded the 1918 killings of Tsar Nicholas II and members ...
It is one of the most brutal, jarring scenes ever shown in The Crown. Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, five children and the family dog are brutally executed by a firing squad in a graphic flashback to ...
15 March 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II steps aside, paving the way for Russian women to get the vote. As Women’s History Month continues, we look at how Tsar Nicholas II of Russia’s abdication on this day ...